Fleet Calculator

Notes

1. Tesla network fees Tesla takes 30% of rider revenue, plus a $220/month Full Self-Driving subscription. Tesla has said its cut will land between 25 and 30%. We use 30% to be conservative.

2. MAT Co. depot services One flat fee of $1,875 per vehicle per month. It covers cleaning, depot parking, Level 2 charging, and routine on-site servicing: tires, rotations and alignments, brake pads and rotors, suspension wear parts, fluids and filters, wiper blades, and the 12-volt battery. There are no per-mile charges, so the fee stays the same no matter how much the car drives. Work that requires a Tesla certified technician is passed through at cost, with no markup from MAT.

3. Insurance, registration, and the loan Commercial insurance runs $800 a month per vehicle. Ohio EV registration is about $23 a month, which is the $280 a year state registration spread monthly. Selecting “Financed” adds a loan payment of about $783, which finances the full $30,000 vehicle plus 8% sales tax at 7.5% APR over 48 months with nothing down. The term matches the vehicle's working life, so the car is fully paid off by the time it retires.

4. Tesla service reserve Some work needs a Tesla certified technician: heat pump and air conditioning repairs, steering and suspension components beyond normal wear parts, door and window actuators, low-voltage electronics, glass, and interior refurbishment. MAT passes that work through at cost with no markup. We budget about $6,000 over the vehicle's four-year life, held as a $125 monthly reserve. Tesla's basic warranty runs four years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first. A robotaxi passes 50,000 miles in under a year, so we assume most of this work lands out of warranty. If Tesla offers stronger fleet coverage, this reserve shrinks.

Assumptions & caveats

Vehicle life We assume each Cybercab runs 264,000 miles over about four years and is then replaced. Tesla has not published official durability specs, so this is our planning assumption. The loan pays off on the same schedule, so a retiring car carries no remaining debt.

Maintenance, all in Routine work runs about $0.075 per total mile, and it is already inside the flat depot fee. The Tesla service reserve adds about $0.023 per mile at Year 1 usage. All in, maintenance comes to roughly 10 cents for every mile a car drives, and the numbers above already reflect all of it.

Cash to get started Paying cash, all-in capital is about $32,710 per vehicle: the $30,000 vehicle, $2,400 sales tax, and about $310 at the Ohio BMV for title and first-year registration. Financing instead, day-one cash is just the $310.

Ride and fare numbers The ride counts come from MAT's internal projections and are meant to stay checkable: 496 rides a month at $14 a ride is about 16 rides a day, or roughly one ride an hour across a 15-hour day on the road. By Year 4 that grows to 615 rides at $15.30, a 3% annual fare increase, and costs rise at that same 3% except the loan payment, which is fixed for the life of the loan. Each ride averages 5.5 paid miles. Cars also drive empty miles between rides, roughly doubling total miles driven, which determines how quickly a vehicle reaches the end of its life.

Waymo, for comparison Waymo's driverless fleet runs about 500,000 rides a week across roughly 3,900 vehicles, which works out to about 18 rides per vehicle per day. That is the closest real-world benchmark available today, and it sits just above the 16 rides a day assumed here for Year 1 and just below the 20 assumed for Year 4. Waymo figures are publicly reported as of mid-2026.